RLJer

Last night on my way home I was doing about 28 mph on a downhill section of road which comes to a railway bridge which only has room for a single car to squeeze through, so there is lights controlling the flow of traffic. Anyhoo, I hear a car engine gunning behind me and was expecting the stupid overtaking move (it's a very narrow street). The car must have been doing 35mph at least. As it passes I have a look and it's a car fully of spotty kids. I laughed at the guy in tha back who was looking straight at me as I knew the lights at the railway bridge would be red. I thought to myself "I'm going to have a word with him" (just to put the sh*tters up them). So we come around the smallish bend and indeed the lights were red. What did he do? ploughed straight through without even slowing down, missing the car that was just about to enter the tunnel by inches, so nearly a head on collision.

Over the last few months I have noticed more and more extremely dangerous driving. I think it's time to buy a helmet camera. Last nights episode would have definitely been dropped off at the cop shop.

Maz, in the part of my commute I go through the Clyde tunnel (View: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=zPJv1mahqmY
) which is reasonably steep. By the bottom I can easily hit 30mph. I could go faster, but any faster would be dangerous in my opinion.

My bike is not light or designed for speed (Upgraded Ridgeback Cyclone, 26" wheels with 1.75 marathon plus tyres and lots of other added weight).

I find on my bike (a hybrid with 35x700c tyres) it's pretty easy to get to 28mph on any reasonable hill (one that would take effort to go up). On the flat though it's really hard going to get anything much above 24mph.

On my commute, the 'drag' that I have to go up to get home, is the same stretch I go down in the morning, it's easy to run out of gears on my MTB - 46 x 13 top and easily doing over 30 - no cars pass me and there is a traffic camera on it - so 30's easy and it's not a steep hill.